Volume 5 The Return of the King 48 reappeared yesterday
29 Stormwind City is right in front of you, obviously familiar but so strange.
And the crowd on the outskirts of Stormwind gave me a ...... about the city Abhor.
There had to be thousands of onlookers, and it was a guillotine that was watching.
The guillotine was very high, two or three meters high, and I remember there was no such thing before. The crowd was indignant and shouted slogans in unison. On the guillotine stood a group of people, including executors wearing masks and sturdy prisoners tied up. When the shouts of the people turned into cheers, a head rolled to the ground.
There was a basket under the guillotine, and then the head, which fell off its body and fell into the basket, and blood flowed out from behind the guillotine. After dragging the body away, another guy who had collapsed to the ground with fright was dragged over and pressed against the guillotine, which was already covered in blood.
I watched from afar as the cheers rose from one wave to the next, and people clapped their hands, stamped their feet, gritted their teeth, and let out cries of relief. And every person who is decapitated is ...... Defiia.
There were also women who were beheaded.
And people seem to hate the decapitated woman even more.
I saw the indifference on the woman's face, that expression could not be called numbness, her eyes were full of disdain. Of course, this kind of expression can even inspire anger in some people. One basket was filled and replaced with another, and the heads were hung on a display shelf next to them. There were already more than you could count on the shelf.
The execution was still going on, and I led my horse slowly into this new city.
There weren't as many guards on the streets of the city as I expected, but wanted notices and bounties were everywhere on the streets. Walking through this familiar street, I didn't see any major changes in the appearance of the people in Stormwind, they still did what they had to do, no nervousness, no sadness.
The Gilded Rose Tavern was next to the bank and the exchange, and diagonally across from the Great Market of Stormwind, and the tavern was even more crowded, and they were talking about not only business matters, but also the execution of several prisoners this morning. Listening to them say that the loss of the king did have a great impact on trade, but what they could feel from their mouths was that it didn't matter if the king could be found or not, they had adjusted the policy of import and export trade, and now the question was how to get the most profit during the period when Bervar became the regent.
And when I heard the news that Berval had become regent, I was not very surprised, but it made me giggle when I heard that Madame Catlana had decided to enter politics. Although she is a countess, her status does not seem to be inferior to that of Berval, the regent! Moreover, Lady Catlana was allowed to take care of Prince Anduin closely. Do you know what that means?
And for this, the people of Stormwind have said anything about it, saying that she is a femme fatale, saying that she is a scourge, saying that she is a slut, and of course there are also indifferent things. As for the people's discussions, Ms. Katlana, who was sitting on the edge of the throne, should not be able to hear it, and even if she did, she probably wouldn't care. And it was a bit surprising that Bolval and the nobles could tolerate such a thing.
What made me feel even more unexpected was that they actually knew that I was back, and the most unexpected thing for me was that they actually said that I was the mastermind of the king's disappearance!
That night I was outside the Reginald Windsol Mansion.
Reginald's mansion was much more magnificent than before, and there were more than twenty guards outside the villa alone. It's really not easy to sneak in, it's almost dawn in the early hours of the morning, and it is said that the darkness before dawn is the darkest, and the guards who have changed shifts at this time are the easiest to relax. I climbed over the fence into the courtyard and ran as fast as I could to the dark side of the villa's façade.
I climbed up to the balcony on the third floor with my hands and feet.
The room with a balcony was usually used by the owner, but no one slept in that room, and after a search of the house, there was a sound of footsteps outside. It was dawn now, and the servants had gotten up and gone to work. After discovering that it was easy to be spotted walking outside, I chose to hide for the time being. The servants wake up in the morning to clean, and generally they are busy until noon, and only a short time in the afternoon is they able to rest.
It was during that time that I slipped into the room on the third floor, and Reginald was not at home, so I looked at some of the materials on his desk, and I didn't stay long because there were people walking around outside. I probably rummaged through his house and didn't find a secret compartment like a safe, the only thing that was valuable to me was the document issued by the high-level of Stormwind City to strengthen the investigation, saying that the reconnaissance and patrol in the western region should be strengthened, especially the northern part of the Red Ridge Mountain, and asked to send an inspection team to the front line to supervise, and Reginald was the person in charge of this investigation mission.
Everyone knows I'm back, and they don't know how this guy feels when he finds out the news.
After leaving his house, I want to go to the palace to see if Madame Catlana is not taking care of the prince closely. But the current protection of the palace is really difficult for me to enter, and the previous climbing tools are gone, not to mention whether the outer wall of the palace can be used for me to pick a place to live, and now the moat outside the royal city is a problem.
So, after walking around the palace, I gave up and went straight to Katrana's old home. This time I was too obedient to sneak into her house, so I hung outside her house for two days before it was time for her to leave the mansion.
This woman's house was looser guarded than Reginald's, and as a person with a count's title, he wouldn't have too many guards, so I easily entered her boudoir.
There is a special smell in the room, it is very fragrant and charming, but this woman's room is very strange, other people's rooms are facing south, and they can't wait to get more sunlight, but this woman's room is facing north. And there are no windows in the room where she sleeps!
There is a picture frame on the wall, the thing in the frame is very special, that thing will never be recognized by ordinary people, I was stunned for a moment when I first saw it, but soon I remembered that this is a dragon scale!
When I was scouting the Dark Swamp, I once met dragonmen, although those dragonmen are not particularly large, but I still remember the scales on their bodies, there are patterns on the dragon scales, and the patterns are very interesting, just like the kind of fish scale armor made by humans. And the color of the wall is black, black and shiny. Anyone who sees this thing in this place can only ask what it is. And it's only natural that she has such a strange thing in her hands.
But I wanted to find some letters and stuff from her conversations.
Her bedroom is a two-storey apartment, which adds up to a three-story suite with the outermost floor. So her room was dark, and to be honest, I didn't feel safe at all in this kind of room, but it made me feel depressed and uneasy. It was too dark, so I pulled up the thick curtain, but it was still dark, so after touching her bed, I went back to her cupboard, and found not only gold but also precious stones and crystals of all colors.
Especially those crystals are not ordinary things at a glance. Two of them caught my eye, one glowing faintly but like ink on the inside, and the other sparkling like pomegranate seeds. I reached out to touch it, but the moment my fingers touched the black crystal, it felt like an electric shock, and I pulled my hand back directly, but at this moment I seemed to see a pair of eyes staring at me.
Instantly, a bad premonition emerged, and the uneasiness in my heart became more and more serious. I rummaged through the cabinet faster, rummaging through the cabinet, with the idea that as soon as I found something with words, I would leave immediately. However, apart from some gifts from some nobles, no papers or letters were found.
Suddenly I heard someone outside far away with an oosh, a frightened and panicked sound, and then the sound of something falling on the ground. My heart tightened!
Years of experience in the lurking show me that something is likely to happen! I didn't care so much, so I rushed out of the inner room, but I heard the sound of hurried walking by the door of the room! And not alone! That's a lot! That heavy footsteps are not a woman! The sound it made was the sound of armor rubbing!
At this point, the only thought is to run! You can't hide! If you stay in this room, you're looking for death! And my only escape was the north-facing window!
"Bang!" When the door of the room was pushed open, it was not one or two people rushing in, and when I heard this sound, I had already fallen from the third floor to the second floor, and it was this sound that I let go and fell from the second floor windowsill to the ground. The sound I made when I landed was so startled that they must have heard it!
I couldn't do that much, so I rushed straight to their courtyard wall, and before I could reach the courtyard wall, there were exclamations and shouts from behind.
The walls of their house were more than three meters high, but this height in front of me was not a problem at all, and when I turned over to the outer wall, the flying arrows grazed my body.
I rushed straight into the alley, and the pedestrians who saw me on the road exclaimed. I was running very fast, but I knew I had a big basket now.
That woman wasn't going to give up.